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Using homeless people as a walking broadband connection

Among the attendees of South by Southwest in Austin are a smattering of homeless people wearing T-shirts that proclaim “I am a 4G hotspot,” and for a user donation one of them will stand next to you while you check your email or do whatever else you need with the connection. Read Write Web has a good story outlining the “social experiment” by BBH-Labs.
via GigaOM

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